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"On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice. Sutton Layne is almost-forty and fabulous, with a happy marriage, three beautiful children, and a successful interior design business. But there's plenty ofchaos behind the scenes of early midlife. Her preteen son is going off the rails, her husband is bailing on the party...

"Charlie Quinn has spent her life playing by the rules. But when, on her thirtieth birthday, she is laid off, her boyfriend leaves her because their life is too "predictable" and she spends the night with violent food poisoning, she hits rock bottom at a stunning velocity, and her carefully constructed world unravels. She has no choice but to return to her childhood home in LA, where her little sister strikes up an idea: Can control freak Charlie...

"An engrossing and original story about a woman who moves from Taiwan to California and builds an unexpected life there"-- Provided by publisher. Joan Liang's life is a series of surprising developments: She never thought she would leave Taiwan for California nor did she expect her first marriage to implode--especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with and marry an older, wealthy American and...

Seventeen-year-old Piper, a restless teen clashing with her responsible older sister and guardian, reconnects with Henry, the boy who broke her heart three years earlier, and the two must confront their pasts to decide whether their reunion is another goodbye or a second chance at love.

An unnamed narrator grows up overshadowed by her unconventional mother, an ex-Jehovah's Witness and former television star with an inferiority complex. Her father is the head of a psychiatric institution, whose only form of parenting is to offer his daughter the same life advice he dispenses to his patients. Reserved and somewhat aloof, he chooses not to intervene when his wife obsesses about charisma, calorie counting, and turning their daughter...

"In this profound meditation on grief, Johnny looks back at his relationship with his life partner, Jerry, after his AIDS-related death. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They made a life on their own terms in Jerry's flat: 1, Nova Scotia House. Johnny is still there today -- but Jerry is gone, and so is the world they knew."-- Provided by publisher.

"Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood... the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman." -- Bookpage In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few...

Divorced, alone, and unexpectedly unemployed, Sylvia Landsman flees to Italy, where she meets Henry, a wistful, married, middle-aged expatriate. Taking off on a grand tour of Europe bankrolled with his wife's money, Henry and Sylvia follow a circuitous route around the continent -- as Sylvia entertains Henry with stories of her peculiar family and her damaged friends, of dead ducks and Alma Mahler. Her narrative is a tapestry of remembrances and regrets...

"An "adventure story of man against the elements with man being the most dangerous element of all" by the award-winning author of Bone White ( Publishers Weekly ). Six months after he almost died in a caving accident, sculptor Tim Overleigh spends his time crutching his broken body from bar to bar in downtown Annapolis. He has told no one that it was his dead wife, Hannah, who helped him survive--and that he's still seeing her... But a chance meeting...

"In her award-winning wildlife photographs, Charlotte Gray captures all the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Far better to focus on breathtaking landscapes than to turn the lens on her own painful childhood and the uncaring mother she left behind in Florida. Piece by piece, Charlotte has built a new, independent life, one she's eager to protect. A chance encounter on assignment in Las Vegas sparks an intriguing relationship, and for the first...